Google Maps Now Available in Mobile Browser

Google Maps is now available from your mobile browser and even provides most of the features we as Android enthusiasts see in the actual app. As long as you “share” your location, you can see yourself on the map, search for nearby breweries, check out information about those breweries, and then find directions to them (OK, not just breweries). You can also check out your starred locations and view traffic and ratings of your favorite places – see, we told you it’s fully-featured.

While we’re not sure we see the overall bonus to using this service instead of your Maps app though, it’s at least there. And of course, your random friend with an iPhone can now feel almost as cool as us because it’s available to them as well.

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I hate this app. It’s slow, and you can’t see the traffic lines correctly.

Anonymous

Not sure what this accomplishes… but hey, steady progress…

Anonymous

I think it has more to do with Google’s philosophy on things, which they talked about at Google I/O. The whole, the web is the future thing. The belief being that you should be able to do everything you want from a browser, and not need local apps. I’m happy they made the concession for offline gmail and calendar though, recognizing that the internet is not yet ubiquitous is something I was afraid they were going to forget…lol

Crazydog

But…it was already available. I showed it to my boss earlier this week to show how poor the performance was compared to the app…